Apnea, means breath holding
or breatless in Latin. You may not be familiar
with this term. But in Europe, apnea is
common as a generic term for underwater
sports which accompanying the breath holding,
i.e. deep free-diving, underwater target-shooting,
spear fishing, underwater-hockey, underwater
photography, etc.

The most famous apnea sport is deep free
diving, which was theme of the movie "Le
Grand Blue". The great French diver
Jaques Mayol reached to -102m in 1978 by
the discipline of No Limits Variable Weight,
now the record is grown to -150m which was
set by Italian, Umberto Pellizari in October
24th, 1999.

No knowledge, no friend, dive alone - what
a terrible situation it is! Our objective
is to make the safe and good environments
for free-divers and increase the people
who really loves sea and nature.